Lambda Cards is a flashcards web app designed to study for the Lambda School web core interview. It shows the student a random question using Fisher-Yates, encourages the student to use active recall to answer the question, and uses card flipping functionality to display the answer in the back of the card.

Check it out at lambdacards.com

Check out the lightning talk from Lambda School's Roundtable in May 2021 where I demo the app, describe the design process, and dive into some features.

The base technologies are JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The frontend leverages React, the backend uses Express and SQLite and the app lives on Heroku.

1. Create a forked copy of this project
2. Clone a version to your local repository
3. From the root directory in your terminal:
   1. Create a an environment file (.env) and declare NODE_ENV=development and PORT=5000[1]
   2. Add the .env to your .gitignore
   3. Download the server dependencies by running npm install
   4. Start up the server by running npm run server
4. From the frontend directory in your terminal:
   1. Download the frontend dependencies by running npm install
   2. Start up the app by running npm start
5. Happy hacking... and when you're ready, share it or pull request me!

If you've made it this far, I bet you have some feedback (ideas, insights, improvements, criticisms, maybe even a good ol' fashioned rant). I would welcome any and all of it. I like being the filter of my noise so even if you think it may not be useful, send it along. I'll be grateful.

Thanks for checking out the project.

[1] You may run the backend server in a different port. If you do, make sure to update your local API call in the frontend action creator.